You are at your home in Minas Tirith, and are in despair. You have promised the steward of Gondor that you would play Lord of the Rings LCG with him. You don't have time, but to break a promise to the steward would mean heavy consequences. After hatching a plan and building a deck, you go to the steward to play the game you promised.
"What is this?" demands the steward, "What's the idea of taking a lot of the good heros?" grumbling, he takes his Elrond-Cirdan-Gandalf deck and goes into another room to fix his deck.
He comes back and gets out the scenarios. "Which one do you think we should do?" asks the steward.
"How about we play The Fortress of Nurn?" you suggest.
"Sure." replies the steward, and set it up on nightmare mode.
"Why do you have that stupid grin on your face?" snaps the steward, as he places his deck and heroes on the table and sets his starting threat. His face turns red and his lips quiver when you set your starting threat to 50 and discard your heroes. "Good day, sir, and good luck." you leave, whistling, while the steward is raging and cursing while he watches his deck fall apart and Gandalf gets blown to bits before he even gets any of his toys.
This deck is just dumped together randomly, because you won't survive to see if it works anyway, because your starting threat is 50. that's why Elrond doesn't have his ring. he has it at Valinor for safe keeping. Sigh.... poor Gwaihir.
Well, like the story says, this is how you can keep a promised game fulfilled even if you don't have time. Elrond, quit looking at me that way.
if they play (shadow and flame) hallofbeorn.com you just start with all your heroes in your discard, happy questing ^^